I ate up all my blog-writing time responding to a comment posted to yesterday’s article “Between Schiavo and Charybdis,” so for that reason — and because of the length and issues dealt with in my response — I decided at the last minute to post my response as a free-standing post. The comment read: Wow! […]

The words of the Constitution of the United States begin thusly, We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish […]